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National Geographic channel is having a program tonight on this astonishingly complex mission. I wish this had been shown before the landing to stoke up interest but that is a minor complaint:Producer Mark Davis spent years following NASA engineers and scientists as they built the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, which later was renamed Curiosity. His documentary chronicles the rover's construction challenges, a frustrating two-year launch delay due to technology hurdles, and finally the rover's spectacular, flawless landing on Mars this week.